Card Of The Week September 20

The Swallows hit back-to-back-to-back home runs to start their game today against the Carp.  Taiki Hamada led off the bottom of the first with his second home run of the year and Norichika Aoki followed with his 15th.  Tetsuto Yamada completed the trifecta with his 10th home run of 2020.  Here's a video showing all three home runs (H/T NPB Reddit):

Aoki's and Yamada's home runs both landed in the Carp's cheering section in the left field corner which was just adding insult to injury.

This was the fifth time in NPB history that a team had led off a game with three consecutive home runs and the first time since 1995. 

Here are cards of the three players, all from BBM Swallows team sets from over the years:

2019 BBM Swallows #S68

2006 BBM Swallows #TY65

2011 BBM Swallows #S45